2026 Guest Artists and Faculty · Page 3
Jim Vivian
Jim Vivian has been at the forefront of music making in Canada for over 30 years, and has performed and/or recorded with most of the well known jazz artists working in the country today. Originally from Newfoundland, he moved from St. John’s to Toronto in 1979 to pursue classical bass studies with Thomas Monohan and Thorvald Fredin. During the early 1980’s he began to focus more on jazz and improvised music, studying with Dave Holland at the Banff centre, and later in New York with Holland and Marc Johnson.
Joe Argentino
Joe Argentino is an Associate Professor of Music Theory at Memorial University of Newfoundland, specializing in post-tonal and serial music. His current research interests include the connection between form and text in Arnold Schoenberg’s religious works, the pedagogical study of improvisation at the keyboard and the late works of Franz Liszt.
Lauren Smee
Lauren Smee is a violinist, personal trainer, and Body Mapping Educator based in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Lauren is passionate about sharing the joys of music and movement with her students, clients, and audiences. She is fascinated by the connections between mind and body and this infuses her work in both music and fitness. Her goal is to aid her students in developing a healthy relationship with the violin and to support her clients in developing a healthy relationship to exercise and their own bodies.
Robert Mellin
Robert Mellin is a registered member of the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Architects and a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. He was an Associate Professor in McGill University's School of Architecture until he retired from teaching in 2019, and he is a Past-President of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. In 2003, he won the Winterset Literary Award for his book on the architecture of Tilting, Fogo Island. He was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2014, and Memorial University presented him with an honorary doctorate in 2015. He was appointed Member of the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2018.
Annie Corrigan
Annie Corrigan is the host of Tuckamore’s post-concert interviews. Originally from Bowling Green, Ohio, she is the Principal Oboe of the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra and an Adjunct Professor of Oboe at Memorial University. Prior to moving to Newfoundland in 2016, Annie served as Principal Oboe of the Carmel Symphony Orchestra and Second Oboe in the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic. Annie is currently completing her Doctorate of Music (Oboe) from Indiana University. In addition to her musical life, Annie has an extensive background in radio and audio thanks to twelve years of work at Bloomington, Indiana’s NPR affiliate WFIU.